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Aug. 19, 2009 I am so disgusted with how the American public are being manipulated and exploited by their very own fear over a broken health care system. The anger and the resentment we've been witnessing at various Town Hall meetings over the past few weeks have been fertile breeding ground for opportunistic morons who are using what American's fear the most to worm their propoganda into an already volatile debate of misinformation, rumor and chaos. What could be more terrifying than the fear of having to pull the plug on Granny because you can't afford to keep her alive? When it comes to promoting an agenda, the elements of fear and suspicion will always create an ideal platform, can always be counted on to deliver a built in audience, and I can't think of a more divisive topic than Health Care. It's one concern we all share, one issue that impacts every one of us and those we love the most. It's not about the neighbor down the street or the person standing next to us on the bus, it's about all of us and that's what makes the fear mongers even more insidious than they already are! When someone we've elected to be our voice, to represent our concerns and who is suppose to understand the minute details of a complicated system and deliver them to us in a language we can all understand, when they're the one's spewing this crap about plugs and death squads into an already volatile cocktail of resentment and blame, how far can any of us expect to get? No one can make any progress when the contributions being made by those with the power to make the changes we need are talking out of both sides of their mouths! You can't have a rational proactive discussion with idiots who use half truths, assumptions, hidden agendas, fear and bold faced lies to assert their positions! All they do is fan the flames of bitterness and suspicion! The only things people are taking with them when they leave these Town Hall meetings are more suspicion, more frustration and more anger. When I hear educated, freely elected mouthpieces using terms like "pulling the plug" or "death squads" in public conversations about Health Care Reform, I can hardly be expected to sit there quietly with my hands folded while I wait for my turn to talk! People are freaking! What would you expect? A mature measured conversation where both sides use equal time and apologise to each other if they've gone over their allotted minutes? Oh Mary please, spare me already! What we're finally seeing now, and what should have come years ago, is the public's outrage and frustration over years of unaccountability and greed from every level of health care. The abuses have been criminal. The drug companies have been marching side by side with the FDA for way too long. Hard working American's have been blackmailed, are being extorted into paying up or dying. The kind of profits generated by the various arms of Health Care are so massive and have been happening for so long that there is no way in hell anyone on the recieving end of that kind of money is about to make A SINGLE compromise. Why would they? Every single human being needs health care, and when you've cornered a market like that you'll hold on like a pitbull. We've seen a few interesting changes to the way corporations have had to deal with the backlash of an angry public. Certainly the tobacoo companies have had no choice but to admit that the product they've been pushing for so long kills. The cars they drive and the houses they live in have all been bought and paid for with the lives of their customers. Isn't that a trip? What the drug companies and the tobacoo companies have in common are profits. Major profits. Next to the auto industry, the tobacoo and drug companies generate the kind of profits that spell power. When you have enough money to launch the kind of global campaigns we've seen from Brown & Williamson or General Motors, their influence can't be denied. However...not everyone needs to drive a car or smoke a cigarette. Everyone does need health care. When the drug companies found themselves in control of a product that the whole world needed, it's unlikely they were thinking about the single mother of 2 from the Bronx, working as a waitress, just trying to do the best she can for herself and her kids. In a country that recognises ITSELF as the land of opportunity, that promotes ITSELF as a country where anyone can attain the "American" dream, it's need to make itself sound and look good appears to have colored the way it treats it's most vulnerable and most needy people. I've never felt there was a lot of sympathy for those living in poverty and despair, at least from the Government's perspective. In a country where the American dream is available to anyone who cares to go after it, there's always been this kind of dismissive "you made your bed so you lay in it" regard for those who find themselves lost in addiction or homelessness.
I've heard it said that a country's worth can only be determined by how
it treats it's most vulnerable citizen's. I couldn't agree more.
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